TYPHOON, MUDSLIDES KILL 17 IN JAPAN; 50 MISSING
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Rescue workers look for survivors as they stand on the rubble of a house buried by mudslides after a powerful typhoon hit Oshima on Izu Oshima island,…
East Asia
AROUND WORLD, THREAT OF AROUND WORLD, THREAT OF US DEFAULT INDUCES SHRUGS INDUCES SHRUGS
By BERNARD CONDON FILE – In this Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, file photo, a statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands outside the Treasury Building in Washington. The Treasury…
REPORTS: MOM VISITS AMERICAN DETAINED IN NKOREA
By ERIC TALMADGE Kenneth Bae, right, an American man detained in North Korea for the past 11 months, and his mother Myunghee Bae talk each other during their meeting at…
CHINA PREMIER LI KEQIANG ADDRESSES THAI PARLIAMENT
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, and Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra share a light moment during their meeting at the government house in Bangkok Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Li is…
HUNGARIAN WINGSUIT FLYER DIES DURING CHINA JUMP
In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 photo, Hungarian wingsuit flier Viktor Kovats jumps off a mountain at Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie in south China’s Hunan province. Kovats…
NEWS SUMMARY: ASIA-PACIFIC GROUP VOWS TO COOPERATE
By The Associated Press Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, left, waves as, left to right, Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Peruvian Foreign…
LACK OF WORKER SKILLS THREATENS EUROPEAN RECOVERY
By LORI HINNANT and JORGE SAINZ Protesters at Athens university, wearing white masks, shout slogans during a demonstration, in central Athens on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. University staff suspended all…
JAPANESE COURT: ANTI-KOREA ‘HATE SPEECH’ ILLEGAL
By MARI YAMAGUCHI In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, nationalist protesters with Japanese flags, left, and Japan’s naval ensign, right, march through a Tokyo street to denounce”privileges” for…